Firearm



Jan. 6, 1 931. 1 MlNQNDO 1,788,246

FIREARM Filed Aug. 24, 1929 By Attorneys, %/L0 A.M/) W151 V INVENTORPatented Jan. 6, 1931 FRANCISCO MINONDO, OF MADRID, SPAIN FIREARMApplication filed August 24, 1929, Serial No. 388,049, and i n SpainDecember 19, 1928.

The present invention relates to safety devices for long fire arms andprovides a new system whereby accidental discharge of the gun as well asuseless consumption of care tridges or projectiles as long as the properaim has not been taken is absolutely avoided.

With the safety devices hitherto used, the discharge of the gun by afall or imprudent manipulation of the gun is not prevented,

to even when the safety device is in action, owing to the said deviceacting only on the triggers;

lVith the new safety device, this serious drawback is remedied and atthe same time it 1% is ensured that the projectile or cartridge is firedonly after the proper aim has been taken, which results in a materialeconomy in munitions, since it is a very common practice of certainmarksmen to fire as soon as an animal appears, and assuming that the aimhas not been properly taken, the result is of course the loss of theprojectile and of the animal aimed at.

This new device is characterized in that levers lock the triggers andthat an operating button is arranged in the stock or butt of the gun,and becomes operative when the marksman presses his face against it whenhe is prepared to fire.

' The invention will be more clearly understood from the followingdescription read in connection with the accompanying drawing, in which:

Figure l is a perspective view of the trigger mechanism of a long firearm, with which is incorporated a part of the new safety device.

Figure 2 is an elevation of the stock or butt corresponding to the Viewshown in Figure 1, which contains part of the new safety device, and

Figure 3 is a plan of the stock shown in Figure 2, in order to show themechanism for operating the safety device.

As shown in the said figures, the safety device according to theinvention comprises a guide box or case A. adapted to be entirely orpartly closed, in the upper part of which a plate B slides which, onbeing moved for- I ward, locks levers C of the triggers. From a theinner end of the said plate B a rod D starts and carries a spring Ewhich tends to move the plate to the safety position, and a cross pin Fconstitutes a stop for the purpose of limiting the longitudinal movementof the rod D.

The said rod D is pivoted to a tie 'rod G which in its turn is connectedto a lever H pivoted about a. fixed pin I.

The said lever H which can assume the two positions shown in chain anddotted lines in Figure 2, according as the gun is in the safety positionor free to fire, terminates at the top in a small block J, which engagesa cam K having an inclined surface forming part of an operating buttonL, which projects to the necessary extent from the side of the stock.This button can slide on a pin M of suitable cross section mounted inthe stock of the gun and is pressed outward by the spring N.

i As will be readily understood, the triggers can be operated and thegun fired, only when the marksman presses the stock to his face and thuspresses on the button L, which operation is performed only when he hastaken proper aim with the gun. The said button then slides into theinterior, and the inclined surface of the cam K, causes the block J tomove owing to which the tie rod C is pulled towards the stock and thesliding plate B is moved back so that the levers G of the triggers willbe released and free to work.

As soon as the pressure on the button L ceases, the parts will return totheir original position, and the safety device will be thrown intooperative position.

It is obvious that if desired, the arrangement may be made in such amanner that the new device hereinbefore described, will act on thetriggers, in the same way as it looks the levers of the triggers, andthat details of the elements constituting it may be varied withoutdeparting from the invention.

Claims:

1. In a long fire arm, the combination with the usual stock and triggerdevices for operating the firing mechanism, of means normally preventingthe operation of the trigger devices, an actuator movably mounted in theupper side portion of the stock in a location such as to be adapted tobe pressed by a part of the face of a marksman when v using the firearm,and means operatively connecting said actuator with the means forpreventing the operation of the trigger devices, whereby said actuatormay be moved by the pressure of the face of the marksman applied whilesighting the fire arm and thus caused to release the trigger devices.

2. A fire arm, substantially like that de fined by claim 1, having asliding bar as its means for normally preventing the operation of thetrigger devices, a spring to move said bar to its effective position andnormally tending to maintain it there, a depressible button as itsactuator and a linkage i of mechanical velements connecting said buttonwith said bar whereby the latter may be "moved to a position clear ofsaid trigger mechanisms by depressingsaidbutton.

In witness whereof I have hereunto signed my name. 7'

FRANCISCO MINONDO.

